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I feel like this article over-complicates things by using a strange definition of “essential complexity”: That if a user says that something is necessary, than that is essential complexity. Personally I never assume that the user has dist
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> [Why probiotics are not prescribed with antibiotics is] that there is not enough evidence that supplementing probiotics orally does anything beneficial in the grand scheme of things. The grandparent post uses the term “probiotic” but t
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Refer to the section “(11)(b) Managers and Supervisors” https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/...
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You’re describing nothing more than having the programmer be able to stay in the “fun/challenging” zone, above the “boring” zone and below the “stressful/helpless” zone. This is obviously very personal: What is boring for you may
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A little context about Parliament for Americans: - The Canadian House of Commons is similar to the U.S. House of Representatives. - Members of the ruling party are expected to vote with their party 100% of the time, no exceptions. - “Cabine
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This guy is really misrepresenting the numbers. Take this gem: > Gartner research released in early May found that 36% of senior-level job seekers who have received an RTO mandate from their current employer are leaving their jobs as a
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While there’s some truth to “there are programmers obsessed with every language”, functional programming encourages a higher level of correctness, and this can lead to over-analysis and premature optimization if one is not careful. Yes, the
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It’s a book review column, and the book is “Catland” by the literary critic Kathryn Hughes. She focuses on Victorian literature, so it’s not surprising that this isn’t a global survey of cultural attitudes about cats through the ages.
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Rather that dismiss this Proof-of-Concept as a “toy”, I think it’s useful to step back and ask whether all of those things (validation, authorization, authentication, auditing) require lots and lots of code to express, or if they could al
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> Sounds like the WBB was to Toronto what Powell’s is to Portland Absolutely not. The place was pretty much windowless, with large piles of mainstream books from major publishers.
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Naively, I imagine that Cloudflare’s math looks something like this: (Amount owed by customer at end of month times the probability of on time full payment) minus Cost of providing service to customer for one month = profit Since this is an
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> if a service returned a 4xx, it would trigger an exception in their front end code, and they didn’t want to tackle the complexity of handling potential errors from a bunch of different back end services I’ve seen this when the frontend
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I believe that they actually remove the peanut oil as it can fetch more money sold as cooking oil. They substitute an inexpensive oil that they also hydrogenate. The hydrogenation is what keeps the oil from separating.
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Swiss Magazine post “AeroSHARK: inspired by shark skin” https://www.swiss.com/magazine/en/inside-swiss/sustainabilit...
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I’m picking this nit: > When is a build reproducible? > “A build is reproducible if given the same source code, build environment and build instructions, any party can recreate bit-by-bit identical copies of all specified artifacts.”
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> Here’s how Proof of Sampling (PoSP) works: > - A node (called an Asserter) computes a function and submits a cryptographic commitment to an orchestrator. > - The Orchestrator, a trustless random beacon, then decides whether to ac
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Novel, Practical Solution to the Problem of Verification in Decentralized AI(medium.com)
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Thanks for being so open and sharing this. I truly hope that this is an oversight on their part and not something intentional, and we're just looking for the right person who can "press the button" and grant you a license. Lo
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Price transparency aside, do we really know if it’s a lot of work to ask them to waive the annual fee, or to provide a no-cost hobbies license? Why do we all assume that they intend to screw the little guy, and aren’t just a small under-r
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The author does a really good job of describing the tension between the customer’s readiness and the vendor’s need to move leads through the pipeline as fast as possible: > What I was really asking potential customers to do was wait. &gt
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This page has both links to purchase the book and a link to the free online version: https://craftinginterpreters.com/ This is definitely a book that's worth purchasing: The care that Nystrom put into the designing the
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Here’s the full text of C-63 https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/C-63/first-r...
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What would have to happen is an injection of capital to fund continuing operations. Investors would have to believe that there’s a big payoff given the substantial risks. VC money might be completely off the table at this point as there’s n
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> Laura Farris, the minister for victims and safeguarding, said… Instead of looking for those answers in the text of Farris’ summary of the law, we should look at the text of the law itself. Edit: https://bills.parliament.uk&#
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> … claim it on tax. How does a U.S. employee (exempt, W2 form) do this?
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Article title is “City-Country Mortality Gap Widens Amid Persistent Holes in Rural Health Care Access” > The study does not address causes for the increase in mortality rates… differences in health care resources could compromise the acc
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(2014)
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(2022)
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The point is not “nobody on Reddit can ever make out well financially by chasing points, etc.” it’s “people who do this are sophisticated enough at trading that they could make even more money in the financial markets”. (We can debate whe
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Thanks for confirming.

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